Powdered sesame or beans, used for coating tteok, rice cake, in order to improve its appearance and taste.

(figurative) A trivial benefit or profit.

A dish made by steaming or boiling grain powder such as injeolmi, rice cake coated with red bean powder or soy bean powder, and songpyeon, half-moon-shaped rice cake, etc.

(figurative) Hair that is matted due to lack of washing, etc.

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land-winning game; land expansion game: A children's game in which a player flicks a small stone and wins the area the stone lands on

bare ground

ground ball; grounder

peanut

occasionally

because; because of

rice cake; mat; broad; all of a sudden; strongly

rice powder

throw-in; extra; addition

sliced rice cake soup

rice cake hammer

paste bait

rice pounding

earthenware steamer

fall; drop; be reduced to; fall into; be handed over; be taken over; arrive; get to; reach; be disaffected toward; take a disgust at; be put off by; be assigned; be given; be sent; be delivered; lag behind; be inferior to; lose; be defeated; be unsuccessful; lag; separate from; come off; be removed; slip; leave; lose contact with; be severed; be cut off; be away from; be apart from; decline; decrease; be cured; be healed; recover from; get over; go down; sink; be gained; be earned; run out of; be out of; be lost; be spoiled; dry up; wear out; wear away; fray; become threadbare; die; pass away; miscarry; be clearly divided without a remainder; fall short of; be left unpaid; be uttered; be said; be turned on; diminish; weaken; be reduced

take off; detach; remove; take out of; take from; take away from; deduct; set aside; turn away from; break away from; separate from; distance from; take one's eyes off; buy wholesale; purchase wholesale; get wholesale; pull apart from; take a step; walk; first words; abort; finish up; issue; wean off

not pay back; embezzle

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Flour sprinkled on tteok, rice cake, in order to improve its shape and taste.

(figurative) A small extra profit obtained while doing something.

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